On Tue, 06 Jan 2015, Joe Delahaye wrote to mark lewis:

 ML> that said, eliminating duplicates, there's 1948 operator names 
 ML> listed in nodelist.006... that's with eliminating obvious 
 ML> non-names... there's only one or two that may be the same person 
 ML> listed with two variations of their name...

 ML> eg: FA_Stare Fred_A_Stare Fred_Stare (ficticious example)

 JD> Still, I think there is a lot of dead wood in the nodelist, at
 JD> least in Z1 and 2.  I have no idea about Z3

there might be but how is "dead wood" being determined? counting
posts from a system can't be used because that's never been a requirement
for membership... in fact, the only requirement was the ability to send and
receive netmail... right? 

)\/(ark